Author: Ryan

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I am breaking my blog silence to tell you I just saw Islands perform at Legends, and my face hurts from smiling, they were that damn good. It was one of those shows that reminds me why I want to make music.

This is to be the month of concerts for me. Coming up:

• Nov. 4: Don Ross and Michael Manring at the Metro
• Nov. 12: Bonnie Prince Billy at Alix Goolden Hall
• Nov. 16: Tokyo Police Club at Logan’s Pub
• Nov 19: Dan Bern at Central Bar & Grill

I was trying to watch the Talladega Nights trailer on the Apple Trailers site. It wasn’t working for some reason, so I figured I’d open up the HTML source to get the direct link to the video. In doing so, I found this amusing comment in the HTML:

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Flickr has just added a new Map feature to their awesome photo-sharing application.

So now I’ve gotta go and geotag all my photos. As if I didn’t have enough things to do 🙂

You may have noticed the theme has changed… I’m experimenting with the K2 template for WordPress. Let me know if I’ve broken anything.

For some time, I’ve been peripherally aware of an individual by the name of Ze Frank and his video podcast, “the show“. Having now watched a few episodes, I’m pretty much hooked. It’s “The Daily Show” meets “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” meets “Max Hedroom”. Ze’s sarcastic, fast-talking, no-rules riffing is by turns hilarious and insightful.

The show has a great user-created component as well, where viewers (aka Sports Racers) are encouraged to comment on the show, transcribe episodes, write their own segments for Ze to perform on so-called “Fabuloso Fridays”, and identify themselves on a map in a section of the site known only as THE ORG.

Go watch the latest episode, check out the wiki and stick a pin in the map. You’ll be glad Ze’s thinking so you don’t have to. What’s your Power Move?

I was tired of the Flickr badge breaking validation on my site, so I got rid of it. In it’s place, I’ve installed a WordPress plugin to do the job. Say hello to FAlbum! Not only does it display a random selection of my photos, when you click on the thumbnail it displays the larger version of the photo right within my site. Try it out and see what you think.

Unfortunately, the photo display pages aren’t quite compatible with the theme I’m using. I need to do some tweaking with the stylesheets to get everything displaying properly, but it’s a start.

The cool thing about having a blog is if you break it, you can leave it for a few days and you don’t have to worry about your boss breathing down your neck to get it fixed.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention: if you scroll down, way down, you’ll see links to CD Baby for both of Jay Dunphy’s albums, as well as links to find them on iTunes. Go buy one (or three), and help us make another one!

Jay Dunphy and the Religion is playing with The Shine On from Vancouver this Saturday at Steamers. Doors at 9 pm, cover is $5. Great poster by Brandon of Metropol.

Here’s an expression that needs to die: “It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread!” I can think of a million inventions that are better than sliced bread. Say, for example, toilet paper. Whatever people were doing before toilet paper was invented, I can pretty much guarantee it was worse than slicing bread.